( chapter 9′s gif is by @ransomflanagan from this beautiful set ! )
✪ — VACANT MIRRORS ; B.B. | 9/10
summary: innessa’s story ends. you & bucky’s is just beginning.
pairing: bucky barnes / f!reader
tags: set before & during tfatws, friends to lovers, therapy positive, trauma healing techniques, ptsd mentions, the normalization of anxiety disorders, and a good ol’ slow burn
a/n: this has been so fun. all of it - and there’s the epilogue coming to set up the drabbles that will soon follow these two through tfatws…. and i hope this hits the spot. it’s a long time coming.
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In this exact moment, Bucky Barnes knows two things.
The first is that he cannot remember his mother’s voice — he hasn’t been able to for years now. You forget, really, how easy it is for the sounds of someone to melt away in the waves of your mind until it’s just a little too late, and then it begins to slip.
It’s been nearly eight decades since he’s heard her voice.
But, the moment the two of you get close enough on that bike for Innessa Sidrova to step out of the small car now adjacent to traffic, rip your mother from the passenger seat, and promptly spray oncoming traffic with a heavy assault weapon, he knows another thing: that you’re angry.
It’s the scream of a mother, pleading for someone not to hurt their child that glues the two thoughts together in his mind.
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